What singing voice do you have ?

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Apart from asking a singing teacher, is there any way of finding out what your register (is that the right word ?) is ? Folk at work tell me I have a good singing voice, which us nice to know, but it would be interesting to know if I'm a tenor, baritone or whatever else there is.

I'm a 46 year-old male, by the way.

Thankyou.

I joined a no-auditions-needed choir and in the first session of the term they did a warm up exercise where we all went up and down the scale and were told to just drop in and out as and when the note was comfortable to sing. As we went along they would call out things like "if you've dropped out by now you are a tenor" and "if you are still singing now you are a soprano. I turned out to be a tenor (middle aged female)

Wikipedia says:
The tenor's vocal range (in choral music) lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, and A4, the A above middle C.

The next voice up is countertenor which is typically around G3 (the G just below middle C) to D5.

The voice between Tenor and Bass is Baritone with a typical range between F2 (one and a half octaves below middle C) to F4 (a few notes up from middle C)

There are websites which have onscreen piano keyboards generating the correct notes that you can test your voice against. If your voice isn't used to singing very much you might not have quite as broad a range as the above couple of octaves but with practice your range will increase - it's more likely to get stronger at the higher notes than the lower ones so pick a range according to the lowest note you can comfortably sing without losing volume.

Thankyou for the info vale. I shall investigate further.